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Industrialization
The number of factories nearly doubled. to finance all of the new industries, the governments raised taxes and looked for foreign investors. The growth of factories brought problems like bad working conditions, low wages, and child labor -
Czar Nicholas Rule
Czar Nicholas continued the tradition of Russian autocracy. -
Development of Revolutionary Groups
many revolutionary groups grew and wanted power. a group called the Marxist revolutionaries believied that the industrial class of workers would be able to overthrow the czar & that the workers would form a dictatoriship of the workers. -
Bloody Sunday
Many workers and their families carried a petition for better working conditions, more freedoms, and an elected national legislature. Nicholas II sent in soldiers to fire on the crowd. Over 1,000 were wounded and several hundred people were killed. -
World War I
Russia was unprepared to handle all the costs. They had weaks generals and poorly equipped troops. Russia kept getting defeated to a point where over 4 million were either wounded, killed, or taken as prisoners. -
The March Revolution
Women textile workers led to a citywide strike. There were riots over the shortage of bread and fuel. About 200,000 workers striked against the war and autocracy. -
The Czar Steps Down
All of the protests and general uprisings led Czar Nicholas II to abdicate his throne and he and his family were eventually executed. -
The Bolshevik Revolution
The Bolshevik Red Guards took over government offices and arrested leaders of the provisional government. Farmland had been ordered to be distributed among the peasants & control over factories was given to the workers. Civil Wars raged in Russia. -
Lenin in Power
Lenin restored to a small version of capitalism which he called the New Economic Policy. Government kept control of major industries but let small businesses opperate under private ownership. Lenin also organized Russia into several self-governing republics under the central government. Thanks to all of these reforms, Russia slowly started to recover. -
Stalin Becomes Dictator
Stalin started off as general secretary of the Communist Party. By 1928, Stalin was in complete control of the Communist Party & had absolute power as a dictator.
